U (Malayalam)

ഉ is the fifth letter of the Malayalam script.^[1]^[2] It is an independent vowel letter that represents the close back rounded vowel /u/.^[3] In the Malayalam abugida, ഉ is classified as a laghu (short vowel), a category that influences metrical rules in poetry and grammatical sandhi.^[4]

References

↑ Steever, Sanford B. (2015). The Dravidian Languages. Routledge.
↑ Unicode Consortium (2025). "The Unicode Standard, Version 17.0: Malayalam Code Chart (U+0D00–U+0D7F)" (PDF).
↑ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian Languages. Cambridge University Press.
↑ Varma, A. R. Raja Raja (1896). കേരളപാണിനീയം.

[1] Steever, Sanford B. (2015). The Dravidian Languages. Routledge.

[2] Unicode Consortium (2025). "The Unicode Standard, Version 17.0: Malayalam Code Chart (U+0D00–U+0D7F)" (PDF).

[3] Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian Languages. Cambridge University Press.

[:0-4] Varma, A. R. Raja Raja (1896). കേരളപാണിനീയം.

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